CVE-2013-1066 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1066?

CVE-2013-1066 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1066?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu Developers Language-Selector.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1066?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1066 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1066 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1066 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vjq3-454q-w3j4.